>> That works well in countries that operate in a military or police state environment with
>> a compliant population.
The lady would be Sunetra Gupta.
It's less to do with compliant population I think than when you start.
Here, cases generally come to light when somebody falls ill and test and trace has achieved very little. In S. Korea, they have been doing test track and trace from the off and they find most of their cases that way. They generally know who the vector is. From here we cannot hope to do that, we have far too many cases.
>>Germany was the best guide we had, and they are struggling. In short We are much the same as Europe.
We have had 685 deaths per million. Germany has had 125. So we are much the same?
SAGE advised a lockdown on 21st Sept. when there were 5600 new cases, under 400 people in hospital, and 28 deaths. Yesterday there were 22,000 new cases, 11,000 in hospital, and 326 deaths.
Running Health Services as hot as we do and lack of preparedness probably mean we would always have done worse with Germany, but I still think we would have done a lot better had we had Merkel in charge.
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